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Travel

Lifelong Londoners are still surprised by the speed at which new restaurants, shops and galleries are popping up throughout the UK capital, from its well-heeled west to its aspiring east. It’s a tough beast to tame in a…

Opinion

How do you match 2010? For British politics it was the most tumultuous and turbulent year in living memory, defying all manner of clichés and conventional wisdom.

How do you match 2010? For British politics it was the most tumultuous and turbulent year in living memory, defying all manner of clichés and conventional wisdom. There was the first hung parliament since 1974, the first…

Radio

Richard Johnson, founder of the British Street Food awards, tells us why the UK is leading the way. We’re also be dining with strangers at a pop-up in Brooklyn – and cook, author and broadcaster Thomasina Miers gives us a…

Opinion

Sir Terry Farrell has been charged with reviewing the state of the UK’s architecture – and he’s likely to conclude that we need more architects, says Aled John.

Sir Terry Farrell, founder of Farrell & Partners, is one of the world’s most successful architects. He’s also the mind behind such iconic projects as the 100-storey Finance Tower in Shenzhen and the postmodern home of the…

Opinion

Taylor Swift’s open letter has given Apple’s new streaming service Apple Music a bumper publicity boost.

Apple Music has arrived. A week ago today, the company famed principally for its brilliantly designed hardware released a music-streaming service to rival the likes of Sweden’s Spotify. The build-up to this momentous launch…

Opinion

Three weeks ago, the ascent of the Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats seemed like the relief Britain needed from a tiresome tug-of-war between the Conservative’s David Cameron and the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. But as…

Three weeks ago, the ascent of the Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats seemed like the relief Britain needed from a tiresome tug-of-war between the Conservative’s David Cameron and the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. But as…

Opinion

Education secretary Michael Gove seems hell bent on taking UK pupils back to the days of reading, writing and ’rithmetic; that, says Tom Edwards, is a clueless approach.

Michael Gove is probably a very busy man. As the education secretary here in the UK, he should be. But I rather hope he might find a minute to reconsider his plans for the form and function of our nation’s secondary schools…

Opinion

The UK needs to urgently reassess its foreign policy, says Steve Bloomfield – and a rethink of the UN Security Council wouldn’t go amiss either.

More often than we’d like to admit, foreign policy is decided on an ad hoc basis: sometimes pragmatic, sometimes panicked, rarely principled. Since the end of the Cold War this has only increased. The certainties of old…

Opinion

Monocle 24’s pop guru Fernando Augusto Pacheco is willing to embrace a radical change to the UK singles charts: the inclusion of streaming in the top 40.

One of my favourite cultural reference points is about to undergo its most significant adjustment of the past few decades. I have always been sceptical about changes in the way we consume music but I have to admit that I…

Opinion

M24’s Tom Edwards concedes that the Tour de France has had its image problems but argues that the sport has made more progress than football when it comes to swerving gross commercialisation.

The Tour de France is the greatest annual sporting event in the world. This week the 101st edition of the classic cycle road race begins not in France but in Yorkshire, right here in England, against the beautiful backdrop…

Opinion

Whose image would you like to see on the new £20 note? Robert Bound suggests some well-known names that might fit the bill.

In the next five years the British people have a momentous decision to make. Sure, there’s set to be a referendum on the UK’s relationship with Europe that could change the fortune of every single subject in the kingdom and…

Opinion

As the Ashes get under way, Andrew Mueller reflects that there is no better way for the two countries to stay in touch, learn from each other and recall what they have in common.

Last weekend saw the conclusion of the first episode of the greatest sporting rivalry in the world. This description of Australia versus England at Test cricket is no idle boast – it’s objectively measurable. It’s the…

Opinion

Nelly Gocheva, Monocle’s resident Bulgarian, argues that the adverse reaction to the prospect of people from Romania and her native land coming to work in the UK in 2014 is hypocritical – not to mention unnecessary.

As of January 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians will be allowed to work legally across all countries of the EU. Earlier this year, when the EU's clock started counting down the days to the lifting of all work restrictions, it…

Opinion

Having finally secured his driving licence this week, Dan Poole intends to steer clear of the ‘Just the one: I’m driving’ school of thought – and wishes the same for the rest of the UK.

Earlier this week I passed my driving test – just the 14 years after my fifth failed attempt to become legal behind the wheel. That said, I only resumed lessons a few months ago rather than preparing solidly for this moment…

Opinion

Labour is about to choose its new leader. The party would be wise, says Steve Bloomfield, to reach out and extend its appeal.

At first glance, this appears to be a campaign video for a social democrat, a liberal at least. A black woman talks about struggling to get an education; a Hispanic man discusses his first job collecting rubbish that ena…

Opinion

The Huffington Post couldn’t have asked for a better day than yesterday for its UK launch.

The Huffington Post – the jovial US news website that revolutionised the global media landscape when it started just six years ago – probably couldn’t have asked for a better day than yesterday for its UK launch. With a…

Opinion

From 1 January, EU legislation will come in to force essentially making the UK measurement the “acre” forbidden in all official literature.

From 1 January, EU legislation will come in to force essentially making the UK measurement the “acre” forbidden in all official literature. Henceforth it is to be replaced with the standardised EU measurement of the “hec…

Opinion

The UK culinary scene has improved beyond measure over the past 10 years – and M24’s Aled John is ready to cook up his own little storm.

Food was always a big part of my family life, growing up. Not necessarily good food. Not at all, in fact. But the process of eating: sitting around together as a family – a big collective of four brothers, two parents and…

Opinion

The death of the ‘godfather of multiculturalism’ has brought the issue of racism into focus: have we left it behind in the UK or simply replaced it with an anti-immigration narrative?

Stuart Hall, cultural theorist and intellectual, died on Monday. The reluctant “godfather of multiculturalism”, Hall arrived in the UK with Jamaica’s Windrush generation to embark on a three-year Oxford Rhodes scholarship…